Blue-winged warbler Vermivora pinus
Identification Tips:
Length: 4.25 inches
Small, active, insect-eating bird
Thin, very pointed bill
Yellow head and underparts
White undertail coverts
Black eyeline
Olive nape and back ...
Blue-winged Warbler Behaviour
No observations regarding Blue-winged Warbler behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Blue-winged Warblers ...
The Blue-winged Warbler is a close relative of the Golden-winged Warbler. The Blue-winged Warbler has slowly expanded its range to the north in recent decades, encroaching on the breeding grounds of the Golden-winged Warbler.
The Blue-winged Warbler hybridizes with the Golden-winged Warbler where the breeding ranges overlap; ornithologists are trying to piece together the puzzle of how this hybridization is affecting populations of both species.
Blue-winged Warbler
(Vermivora cyanoptera)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2009
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as a migrant in moist, wooded areas of the lab.
Subfamily Parulinae
Blue-winged Warbler
Vermivora pinus (Linnaeus) ...
Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora pinus. Breeder. Fairly common in fall, uncommon in spring and summer in Mountain and Tennessee Valley regions. In Gulf Coast region, fairly common in spring, uncommon in fall, and occasional in late summer.
Blue-winged Warbler
Vermivora cyanoptera (scientific)
The Blue-winged Warbler, Vermivora cyanoptera, is a fairly common New World warbler, 11.5 cm long and weighing 8.5 g. It breeds in eastern North America in southern Ontario and the eastern USA.
Blue-winged Warbler
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Canada Warbler
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Blue-winged Warbler, Vermivora pinus
Golden-winged Warbler, Vermivora chrysoptera
Tennessee Warbler, Vermivora peregrina
Orange-crowned Warbler, Vermivora celata
Nashville Warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla
Virginia's Warbler, Vermivora virginiae ...
In the East, the most similar species is the Blue-winged Warbler, although many warblers are similar in size and body shape. The Blue-winged Warbler is mostly yellow, with slate-gray wings and tail, and has two wing bars and a black eye stripe.
BLUE-WINGED YELLOW SWAMP-WARBLER.
[Blue-winged Warbler.]
HELINAIA SOLITARIA, Wils.
[Vermivora pinus.] ...
In Praise of Ravens
Songs from the Forest
Two Waterthrush Morning
What is this Gull?
Blue-winged Warbler ...
I went back the next day and several days after with no success. Pike's Bridge Road produced the usual Blue-winged Warblers and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. The number of Bobolinks in the meadow seemed to be reduced from past years.
 See also: Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Redstart, Ovenbird
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